Stargirl Critical Stargirl is an amazing book written by Jerry Spinelli. This book is a good read for any child in middle school or high school having a rough time, feeling like an outcast in school, home, or other social situations. I liked how this story had many hidden lessons about finding out who you are and how you deal with stereotypes. Most people pass judgments on people, as much as we don’t want to it happens. From the clothes they wear to the color of their hair to the way they carry themselves, people judge. Middle and high school students go through some rough adjusting time, this book could possibly help these students fins themselves. I think teaching students about bullying is a very important topic at every age. Bullying can happen as early as kindergarten. Although I wouldn’t be reading Stargirl to a kindergarten class, bullying is a very good lesson to teach. I believe teaching children from an early age about how to get along with one another would lead to a better acceptance of others. In the middle school or high school level, if I was teaching a lesson on bullying, Stargirl would be a good book to read as a class and get the students involved. At one point or another every student can relate to Stargirl. Everyone is a new student at some point in their school career. It could be the first day of a new school or as simple as moving from an elementary school to a secondary level school. Teaching acceptance of others is a key part of everyone’s lives. You just can’t ignore people that are different from you. Teaching students to find similarities with someone who is a little bit of an outcast can give them a better understanding of that outcast and they would eventually except them for who they are. It’s like the old saying, “Don’t judge a book by a cover”. I think the book Stargirl relates to authenticity in the book Pleasures of Children’s Literature. It talks about minority, in Stargirl, she was the minority. She was unique, different from everyone else, and didn’t care what others thought of her. Stargirl is a very relatable book to read, not just to Stargirl, but also to anyone else in the book. Reading this book reminded me of my high school career. I had a bad class. When I say bad, I mean a very judgmental class. If you didn’t look a certain way, act a certain way and were not friends with the right people you were an outcast. I was raised differently. My parents taught my sisters and I to make friends with everyone. If you saw someone being picked on or bullied, you helped them. You became friends with the student who stood out. Just because they were different, we were told to treat them the same way you would want to be treated. We were also raised to go to the beat of our own drum, not to follow what others did. I think my sisters and I can all relate to Stargirl. I am glad my parents raised us the way they did, because I don’t have any problem accepting different people.
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Stargirl is an amazing book written by Jerry Spinelli. This book is a good read for any child in middle school or high school having a rough time, feeling like an outcast in school, home, or other social situations. I liked how this story had many hidden lessons about finding out who you are and how you deal with stereotypes. Most people pass judgments on people, as much as we don’t want to it happens. From the clothes they wear to the color of their hair to the way they carry themselves, people judge. Middle and high school students go through some rough adjusting time, this book could possibly help these students fins themselves.
I think teaching students about bullying is a very important topic at every age. Bullying can happen as early as kindergarten. Although I wouldn’t be reading Stargirl to a kindergarten class, bullying is a very good lesson to teach. I believe teaching children from an early age about how to get along with one another would lead to a better acceptance of others. In the middle school or high school level, if I was teaching a lesson on bullying, Stargirl would be a good book to read as a class and get the students involved. At one point or another every student can relate to Stargirl. Everyone is a new student at some point in their school career. It could be the first day of a new school or as simple as moving from an elementary school to a secondary level school. Teaching acceptance of others is a key part of everyone’s lives. You just can’t ignore people that are different from you. Teaching students to find similarities with someone who is a little bit of an outcast can give them a better understanding of that outcast and they would eventually except them for who they are. It’s like the old saying, “Don’t judge a book by a cover”. I think the book Stargirl relates to authenticity in the book Pleasures of Children’s Literature. It talks about minority, in Stargirl, she was the minority. She was unique, different from everyone else, and didn’t care what others thought of her. Stargirl is a very relatable book to read, not just to Stargirl, but also to anyone else in the book. Reading this book reminded me of my high school career. I had a bad class. When I say bad, I mean a very judgmental class. If you didn’t look a certain way, act a certain way and were not friends with the right people you were an outcast. I was raised differently. My parents taught my sisters and I to make friends with everyone. If you saw someone being picked on or bullied, you helped them. You became friends with the student who stood out. Just because they were different, we were told to treat them the same way you would want to be treated. We were also raised to go to the beat of our own drum, not to follow what others did. I think my sisters and I can all relate to Stargirl. I am glad my parents raised us the way they did, because I don’t have any problem accepting different people.